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To: zonkie who wrote (67828)	5/15/2006 8:16:12 PM
From: zonkie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362604

Now he's getting into the real reason for going on TV tonight. He just proposed a national ID card which he says is just for immigrants. That's the first step to his brownshirts in the secret service coming up to you on the street and asking for your papers. Is that a picture of Ann Coulter behind junior?

To: zonkie who wrote (67828)	5/15/2006 8:50:22 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362604

Halliburton Awarded Contract To Build Detention Camps in the US Submitted by Ted Kahl on February 6, 2006 - 2:12am.DictatorshipIsEasier.us \| Tom Hennessy writes for the Press Telegram: Maybe a lifetime in the news business makes one paranoid. Or maybe it was just a matter of timing. The story showed up in Tuesday's Press-Telegram, as I was reading "Night," Elie Wiesel's horrifying autobiography of a teenager in Buchenwald and Auschwitz. Appearing on page A5, the story said the federal government had awarded a $385 million contract for the construction of "temporary detention facilities." These would be used, the story said, in the event of an "immigration emergency." Jamie Zuieback, an official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), explained such an emergency like this: "If, for example, there were some sort of upheaval in another country that would cause mass migration, that's the type of situation that the contract would address." That sounds a tad fuzzy, but let's concede that the camps do have something to do with immigration, illegal or not. In fact, there already are thousands of beds in place at various U.S. locations for the purpose of housing illegal immigrants. But for anyone familiar with history U.S. or European the construction of detention camps for whatever purpose should prompt a chilling scenario. Same folks The new detention camps will be built by Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR), a subsidiary of Halliburton. The latter, as you likely know, is the defense-related corporate giant with fists full of contracts involving the war in Iraq. Halliburton was led by Vice President Dick Cheney from 1995 to 2000. Democrats in Congress have accused the administration of favoring the company via no-bid contracts. But KBR says the detention contract was competitive. It's horrifying enough that these camps would be used for immigrants, but consider the next possible step...as forewarned back in 2002 in this article by Jonathan Turley in the LA Times. Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish Vision Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft's announced desire for camps for U.S. citizens he deems to be "enemy combatants" has moved him from merely being a political embarrassment to being a constitutional menace. Ashcroft's plan, disclosed last week but little publicized, would allow him to order the indefinite incarceration of U.S. citizens and summarily strip them of their constitutional rights and access to the courts by declaring them enemy combatants. There have been proposed antecedents, such as Oliver North and Reagan's Rex-84 plan, as well as Operation Garden Plot. Democrats.com's DictatorshipIsEasier.us reports on a changing America under George W. Bush. "If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator" -- George W. Bush, December 18, 2000 democrats.com